Tag: “Vernacular Plainsong” (27 posts)
Subscribe to Year C responsorial psalms (now until November 22)
September 21, 2009 by — 0 comments.
I will be distributing my collection of Year C responsorial psalms for the Ordinary form of the Mass via e-mail starting in November. If you would like to receive these in your inbox, please subscribe to the list below. Access is not limited to church musicians; any and all should feel free to subscribe. To [...]
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“The Music That Never Was”
September 1, 2009 by — 2 comments.
Jeffrey Herbert has prepared a presentation on the current ICEL chant project [intro in PDF] and its development along the new translation of the Roman Missal. As the new translation of the Roman Missal has come into being over the past several years, a related project has been underway that has not garnered as much [...]
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SMTV Vol. II, No. 7.5 – Alleluia: Mittat vobis (English adaptation)
July 31, 2009 by — 1 comment.
Alleluia, alleluia. May the Lord send you help from the sanctuary, and defend you out of Sion. Alleluia. Ritual Mass: Missa pro sponsis (Wedding Mass) Scripture verse: Psalm 20(19):3 Latin-language source: Graduale Romanum (1974), p. 646–647 Translation and melodic adaptation: Aristotle A. Esguerra Sheet music: PDF (includes five other settings and four additional options for [...]
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Alleluia verses for nuptial Masses (Ordinary Form)
July 27, 2009 by — 1 comment.
I have set, in modern notation, the four options for the Alleluia verse in the Ordinary Form Nuptial Mass, as well as simple and melismatic English-language adaptations of the Alleluia verse, as found on p. 646 of the Graduale Romanum/Graduale Triplex (Solesmes, 1974) for the Missa pro sponsis. These are set to absolute pitch—or more [...]
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Music for the English Language Roman Missal: An Introduction (Sung Readings)
May 15, 2009 by — 2 comments.
This morning, the International Committee on English in the Liturgy released on their website “Music for the English Language Roman Missal: An Introduction,” which outlines the processes used to adapt the Roman-rite melodies and melodic formulas of the Mass to the new English translations. While those who are familiar with chanted English in the Ordinary [...]
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Worship, unplugged: three items for consideration
May 4, 2009 by — 0 comments.
Dr. William Mahrt of Stanford University, in his latest editorial for the Church Music Association’s Sacred Music quarterly journal, writes: “In the 1940s Marshall McLuhan said that the microphone would be the death of the Latin Mass, a very astute and prophetic observation.”[1] While he is talking about the practical necessity before the era of [...]
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Responsorial Psalms for Sundays (Year B) until Christ the King
May 1, 2009 by — 0 comments.
The following Responsorial Psalm settings are now available in the Original Compositions section of this website: Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary [...]
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An English-language choral Offertory proper for Easter Sunday
April 30, 2009 by — 1 comment.
Jerry Galipeau of WLP has posted on his blog “The Earth Feared and Was Silent”, a composition by the late Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell, OCSO. The piece takes its text from a translation of the Offertory proper chant for Easter Sunday. Download the sample PDF octavo. Download the mp3 of the final refrain. [audio:http://www.wlp.jspaluch.com/download/002311-018.mp3] I note [...]
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Five more Responsorial Psalms to Gregorian chant melodies
April 27, 2009 by — 0 comments.
Five additional Responsorial Psalm settings are now available in the Original Compositions section of this website: Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Like the other settings [...]
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More Responsorial Psalms to Gregorian chant melodies
April 7, 2009 by — 0 comments.
More Responsorial Psalm settings are available in the Original Compositions section of this website: Most Holy Trinity, Year B Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Year B Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Year B Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year [...]
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